The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-24
TIE ELECTION OUTLOOK.


One week from tomorrow the genera
election will be held. The members o.
the Legislative Assembly and county
officers are to be chosen. The attention
excited by the Statehood movement has
somewhat lessened the interest in the
election, but it is hoped not to the ex
tent of causing anybody to forget to
cast his vote on Monday. The re-
districting for members of the Legis-
lature gives greater value than ever be-
fore to votes, each district sending up
its own members, and not trusting to
another county to make the choice
and elect the man. 1t will make prac-
tically no difference, as to the general
result, in agreat majority of the districts.
but in others it will make very material
difference whether the voters all turn
out land do their duty, or pursue the
thoughtless, negligent course of the
past. The First, Second, Third, Fifth
Sixth, Ninth, Eleventh, Thirteenth,
Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seven
tenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Tween
tieth, Twenty-frst. Twenty-second,
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Rep
resentative districts are absolutely safe
to the People, provided the latter do
not forget election day as so many did
on the occasion of the school elections
recently. 1t Is believed the Peoples
voters are in the majority in the Fourth
Ogden City, district, and in the Eighth,
which includes Tooele County, Tintic,
Juab County, and Bingham. Salt Lake
County, but there can be no waste of
votes. Every member of the party
must be energetic and faithful on that
day, if he would not let the enemy win
the victory. The People may at once
accept it as fact that the Liberals will
not be asleep on August LIST. Ev ~
vote which they can command will be
cast. In the Seventh district, which
was gerrymandered most outrage
ously in order to insure an anti-People
Representative, the Liberal managers
have done what they could to defeat
their own party and bring the partisan
work Of the board of apportionmeDt to
naught. The district includes Summit
County, except four small precincts,
and Mountain Dell and Sugar House
Ward in Salt Lake County. The Liberal
vote is overwhelmingly in the majority,
and under ordinary circumstances
t would hardly be worth the while
he People to engage in the contest.
But 1he Liberals, as if to invite defeat, |
lave nominated most unpopular man
or the House, while the People |
promptly accepted the challenge, and |
famed trustworthy, well-known and |
popular gentleman, and a trained and |
competent legislator. Mr.. John Boy
len, of Coalville, has served in the
Assembly, where he proved his ability
md usefulness as q legislator. He
stands well with all classes in the dis
riot, while his competitor has only a
mall following, but many enemies. 1t
s common talk in the Liberal strong
hold, Park City, that although they
viii not vote for the Peoples nominee,
hey cannot vote for the Liberal
candidate. The vote of Park City on
representative will assuredly fall far
below the registration, and the feeling
$ so intense against the Liberal candi-
late that it is believed many Liberals
will vote for the Peoples ominee so as
o defeat the man who has been put up
or them to support. at any rate,
here is good fighting ground for the
people in the Seventh district, hence
here should be no Peoples vote lost on
Election day. There are two districts
n doubt-the Tenth and Twelfth. COM
,rising the second and fifth Salt Lake
}ity precincts. They are in doubt be |
suse it cannot be known until election
lay whether the registration lists re-
present the honest voters of the dis.
riot, or whether the lists have been
tutfed. The late school elections con-
eyed the idea that there were on the
lists good many more names than
here are voters in the districts. If this
hall prove to be the case, the
People will carry the dis
riots without doubt, as it is
,nown that the members of thai
'aIty are very nearly equal to half the
otal number of names registered. I'll
5 important, however, that every
Peoples man in the districts makes il
lis first duty to cast his ballot for his
larty nominee.
As to the Council, the Liberals do
lot even expect to elect more than one
member, and they are in much doubt t,
5 20 that. They hope to send their
nan from the Fourth Council district.
nade up of the Seventh and Ninth
districts. 1t is possible
hey may succ ed, but the PEOPLES
nance Of winning is so good that it !
hould stimulate every member of the
arty in the district to vote for the
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